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🗓️ 1 September 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The difficulties of finding the true number of people who died in the fire.
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0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
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0:36.0 | This is the BBC. |
0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less your weekly guide to the numbers all around us in the news and in life. |
0:46.5 | This week we'll be asking whether John Humphreys is right, despite the obvious arithmetical objections to claim that men have more sexual |
0:54.5 | partners than women. Can you spot the mistake in this statement? |
0:58.9 | Rivers, reservoirs, canals at the sea and other areas like that. The water temperature at those sites |
1:04.8 | will rarely get above 15 degrees and often will stay much colder. And most of us are used to swimming |
1:10.2 | in swimming pools which are normally kept it around 30 degrees so that's at |
1:14.8 | least half the temperature. |
1:16.7 | And in the wake of Hurricane Harvey we'll ask why these storms seem to be getting more and |
1:21.9 | more destructive. But first a disaster closer to home. |
1:27.0 | In the early hours of June the 14th, a fire engulfed Grenfell Tower, a residential |
1:36.2 | tower block in West London. A large number of people died and in the aftermath |
1:40.6 | many people expressed outrage that a tragedy like this one was able to happen in modern Britain. |
1:47.0 | But some people were also frustrated at the numbers being reported by the police and then the media of how many people had died. |
1:56.7 | At noon on June the 14th, 11 hours after the fire started, the Metropolitan Police could only |
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